Toy bank.



PATENTED NOV. 14, 1905.

F. PLATTNBR.

TOY BANK.

APPLICATION FILED APE. s. 1905.

[NVE/VY'OR ZWZ Wm Allome NITED STATES FREDERICK PLATTNER, OF CLEVELAND,OHIO.

TOY BANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1905.

Application filed April 3, 1905. Serial No. 253,388.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK PLATTNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Toy Banks,.of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention is a toy bank or money-box provided with a moving figuresimulating a blacksmith and actuated by a trip or trigger to release acoin placed in a slot in the anvil and allow it to drop in the bankbelow and to cause the figure to strike with a hammer toward the anvil.

The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof; Fig. 2, a vertical sectionthrough the anvil and base; Fig. 3, a plan view of the base with theupper parts removed, and Fig. 4 a perspective view of the operatingconnections.

' Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates an anvil mountedupon a block 7, which sits upon a base 8, these parts being hollow andforming the moneybox. The anvil is slotted in the top, as at 9, toreceive a coin.

The figure 10 represents a man and is pivotally mounted upon anextension 11 of the base at the heel of the left foot, as indicated at12, so that the figure when operated will turn partially around. Theright foot of the figure is located above a slot 13 in the top of saidextension, this slot being concentric with the pivot 12.

The horn 141 of the anvil forms a trigger, being connected to a lever15, which extends through a slot in the end of the anvil and is pivotedthereto by a bolt at 16. This lever has a pin 17, which projectslaterally into a curved slot 18 in the coin-trip 19, which is pivoted at20 to one of the side walls of the anvil and has a pin 21, which islocated directly under the slot 9.

The inner end of the lever 15 is connected by a link 22 with an arm 23,projecting from a rock-shaft 24, which is pivotally mounted within thebase of the device. This rockshaft has an arm 25, which is connected bya rod 26 with a crank 27 the ends of which project through the shouldersof the figure and carry the arms 28, which hold a hammer 29. When thecrank is turned, the arms swing up or down. Extending laterally from thearm 25 in convenient position to be operated under the extension. 11 isa finger-piece 30, by pressing up and back on which the parts arebrought to the set position shown in F igl.

31 indicates a spring which is fastened'at the end 32 by being passedthrough. a hole in the top of the extension 11 and bears with a yieldingpressure upwardly at its end 33 against the edge of a flange or rib 34,project ing downwardly from the rock-shaft 24. The rod 26 extends upthrough the slot 13 and within the right leg of the figure to connectionwith the crank 27. shaft turns, the downward swing of the arm.

25 carries the rod 26 laterally as well as down.-

wardly, and the lateral movement causes the turning motion of the figureabove referred to.

In operation the parts are set by reaching under the extension 11 andpushing the finger-piece 30 up and back, which puts the parts in theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 4. A coin is then put in the slot andrests upon the pin 21. The horn of the anvil is then pushed down. Thisturns the trip 19 and allows the coin to fall in the box. At the sametime it pulls up 011 the arm 23 and turns the rock-shaft 24 until theflange 34 is slightly beyond the center. The spring 3]. then. comes intoplay and by pressure upwardly on the lower edge of the flange 34 snapssaid flange up, throwing the rock-shaft around. quickly, which pullsdown the arm. 25 and rod 26 and turns the crank 27, giving the arms andhammer a quick stroke downwardly, which may deliver a tap on thethumb-nail of the person who presses down. on the anvil in case thethumb is not quickly removed after the initial pressure. The looseconnection between the rock-shaft 2 1 and the link 22 allows the suddenturn of the shaft by the action of the spring, as above referred to.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a toy money-box, the combination with a box having a coin slot, ofa figure mounted thereon and having a spring-actuated movable arm, acoin-trip under the slot, and a trigger connected to the arm and thetrip and acting to release them.

2. In a toy money-box, the combination with a box having a coinslot,ofafigure pivotally mounted thereon and having a swinging arm, a springconnected to the figure and the arm and acting to turn the former andswing the latter, a coin-trip under the slot, and a WVhen therocktrigger connected to the trip and to the figslot, and connectionsbetween the horn and I0 ure and arm and acting to release them. the tripand arm.

3. In a toy money-box, the combination In testimony whereof I havesigned my of a base, a slotted anvil mounted thereon name to thisspecification in the presence of and having a pivoted horn acting as atrigger, tWo subscribing Witnesses.

a figure mounted on the base beside the an-w FRED. PLATTNER. vil andhaving a spring-actuated swinging Witnesses:

arm carrying a hammer and arranged to 1 JOHN A. BOMMHARDT,

strike toward the anvil, a coin-trip under the 1 LOTTIE NEWBURN.

